Performance of our portfolio is trailing the benchmarks in the 1 month to 6 month period. The broader benchmarks like the SENSEX have done better because of the Large Cap stocks that have had good increase in price, following their results announcement. Most of them have shown increase in profits, while sales numbers are yet to catch up.
Public Sector Banks (PSB’s), that have become untouchables in the last one year, have after the sharp clean up done on their balance sheets, getting rid of NPA’s, now showing good upward price moves. This turnaround in the PSB’s is not because of positive growth in them, it is just that, they have cleaned themselves and going forward, the expectation is that the performance will be good. Bank stocks have moved up on anticipation of better results in the coming quarters.
Turnaround is just happening and it should take another quarter or two to show up on the top line of companies’ performance. We have been adding stocks to our portfolio, following the March 2016 results. Our portfolio was moved out of stock exposure when the markets turned weak, and presently with new additions in the Paper, Sugar and NBFC sectors, our exposure have moved up to just above 50% and soon it should be reaching full loading.
Stocks like Balrampur Chini, Bajaj Holdings, Chola Finance, Bajaj Finance, DCM Shriram that were added in the last fortnight have been doing very good and going forward, these businesses are expected to give stronger growth to our portfolio.
We invest only in those business that show both Sales and Profit growth, hence, our portfolio does not carry Large Cap stocks in the current market, while we will be adding stocks that show strength, unbiased on the category or sectors.
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